Adventure is where you find it -- and young Til Carter found it in a hurry when he headed north into the toughest country in Alaska with Gordon Bettles, the hardiest old sourdough this side of hell. He also found a beautiful redhead named Julie Condon, who wanted him to settle down and buy into a safe claim, but Til had faith in Bettles's prophecy: "Somewheres, on some river, the big strike's comin'. An' when she comes, an' the news of it hits the outside, there's goin' to be the damnedest gold rush the world has ever seen."